 | James Montgomery - 1853 - 452 pages
...art Thou ; Save or we perish, save us now ! HYMN CCXXXIV. At Home in Heaven. — 1 Thess. iv. 17. 1 " FOR ever with the LORD ! " Amen ; so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that word, Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1853 - 402 pages
...watch, and wait, and pray. CCXLII. "So shall we ever be with the Lord." — 1 Thess. iv. 17. 1 " FOB ever with the Lord ;" Amen, so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word, — 'Tis immortality. 2 Here, in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer... | |
 | Christians - 1853 - 510 pages
...shine, And one blest song shall rend the skies " The glory, Lord, be Thine ! " 65.— s. M. 1 "Fern ever with the Lord ! " Amen, so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, A day's march nearer... | |
 | W. C. Hoyt - 1853 - 240 pages
...high, Lord, bid our spirits rise and join The chorus of the sky. 145. M home in heacen. * 1. Forever with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. 2. Forever with the Lord ! Father, if 't is thy will, The promise of that faithful word, E'en here... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 pages
...daily rise, And reach at last the shining choir lii the bright mansions of the skies ! 816. SM 1 " Fon ever with the Lord," Amen. So let it be ; Life from the dead is in that word ; 'T is immortality. Here in the body pent, • Absent from him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving... | |
 | General Association of Connecticut - 1853 - 736 pages
...see. •>2O. The homeward pilgrimage. 1 Thess. iv. 17 SM 1 'FOREVER with the Lord!'— So, Jesus ! let it be: Life from the dead is in that word ; 'Tis immortality. 2 Here in theJtiody pent, 3 ' Forever with the Lord !' Saviour, if 't is thy will, . The promise of... | |
 | 1864 - 604 pages
...repeated his favourite lines, contained in the well-known hymn, " For ever with the Lord : " — " Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pilch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on liigh ; — Home of my soul how... | |
 | Benjamin Samuel HOLLIS - 1854 - 584 pages
...cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. " So s!ial1 we ev>rl,e with ^e Lord," 1 Thess. Iv. 17. FOR ever with the Lord !" Amen ; — so let it be...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to Faith's far-seeing eye, Thy golden... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 276 pages
...the Lord. " Forever with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word, 'T is immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him...nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. Forever with the Lord ! Father, if 'tis thy will, The promise of that faithful word E'en here to me... | |
 | David Pitcairn - 1854 - 272 pages
...Dark is the wilderness ; Distant the resting-place ; Jesus alone can bless : Jesus is mine." &c. " For ever with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be ; Life...from the dead is in that word — 'Tis immortality ! " &«. " This is not my place of resting, Mine's a city yet to come ; Onwards to it I am hasting,... | |
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Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 
